käänamisel

Käänamisel is an Estonian linguistic term that refers to the state or process of inflection. It denotes how a word changes its form to express grammatical categories such as case, number, mood or tense. The concept is central to Estonian morphology and applies to nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals, as well as to verbs in their conjugated forms.

In grammar and language teaching, käänamisel is used to describe a word when it appears in an inflected form. The expression "on käänamisel" means that the word is being inflected or shown in a particular case or form. Inflected forms are produced by attaching endings or undergoing internal changes to the base stem. Näide: lause "ma näen koera" sisaldab sõna koera, mis on käänamisel (omastav genitive singular).

The concept helps distinguish different layers of word formation. Inflection (käänamine) covers how words take on various forms to indicate syntactic and semantic relations, while conjugation specifically refers to verb forms. Together, these processes constitute essential aspects of morphology and sentence structure in Estonian.

See also:

- Inflection

- Conjugation

- Declension

- Estonian grammar